Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC told Congress they need $11 billion in government loans just to survive the year. Democrats pledged to keep them out of bankruptcy without saying how.

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With President-elect Barack Obama vowing to plow hundreds of billions of dollars into the nation's infrastructure, some state officials are warning that public works projects will fail to effectively lift the country out of recession unless they

Humbled and fighting for survival, Detroit's once-mighty automakers appealed to Congress with a retooled case for a bailout as large as $34 billion Tuesday, pledging to slash workers, car lines and executive pay in return for a federal lifeline.

The Treasury Department has no mechanism in place to track how institutions are using $150 billion in taxpayer money that the government injected into the banking system as of last month, the Government Accountability Office concluded.

As rates approach zero, SNB President Roth, like his counterparts at the U.S. Federal Reserve, may instead have to find new tools to restore the flow of credit through the economy and head off the risk of deflation.

European stocks were little changed Tuesday as hopes of a modest rebound on Wall Street following the previous day's savage retreat amid mounting fears about the U.S. economy helped offset the impact of the overnight slump in Asian markets.

The automakers are working against a deadline today for the plans after Congress’s partisan deadlock last month over how to pay for the loans. The companies also will report November sales today that likely extended a 15% slide through October.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke signaled he’s ready to dig deeper into the central bank’s toolkit after cutting interest rates almost as much as he can, opening the door to a shift by policy makers this month.

The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed. It ignored remarkably prescient warnings that foretold the financial meltdown

The declaration was made by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private, nonprofit group of economists based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The last time the U.S. was in a recession was from March through November 2001, according to NBER.

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According to the president of GM Brazil-Mercosur, the funding will come from the package of financial aid that the manufacturer will receive from the US government and will be used to "complete the renovation of the line of products up to 2012.*

"The world is not going back to normal after the magnitude of what they have done. When the dust settles this will either work, and the money they have pushed into the system will feed through into an inflation shock," wrote Tom Fitzpatrick

We have to be candid about the dire situation of the financial markets and the significant pain and suffering that awaits employees in countries affected by the downturn. I’ll outline some of the potential good that may come to business as a result o

Bloomberg has provided the latest update in that saga and it is not good. The Fed continues to stonewall and it seems apparent that it will only reveal how U.S. taxpayer money is being spent if forced to do so by law.

Until now, the average consumer would stick to necessities, but during times of increased spending, such as gift-giving holidays like Christmas, consumers now have to check their budget and gauge whether or not such purchases are truly feasible.

"A reasonable price for oil is 80 dollars a barrel," said Shahristani on arrival in Cairo to attend a consultative meeting by the OPEC cartel to study slumping crude prices. (Really? Pre or post Hyper-inflation dollars. Such BS)